DevOps Directive
My goal with DevOps Directive (https://devopsdirective.com/) is to provide educational and entertaining (hopefully?…) content to enable engineers to level up their skills and keep up with the continuously evolving DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure landscape. I will be exploring many different types o...
My goal with DevOps Directive (https://devopsdirective.com/) is to provide educational and entertaining (hopefully?…) content to enable engineers to level up their skills and keep up with the continuously evolving DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure landscape. I will be exploring many different types of media, including: - Video Tutorials - Open Source Projects - Interviews - Live & Recorded Screen Casts - Internet Office Hours Topics include: - Infrastructure as Code - Kubernetes - Databases - Networking - Security - Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment - Monitoring - Cloud Providers - Career Advancement I am not an expert in all of these topics. That being said, I am good at reading documentation, asking the right questions, and explaining what I learn along the way. Join me! -Sid
What this channel is known for
AI summaryDevOps Directive provides in-depth, production-focused courses on DevOps and cloud infrastructure, covering tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions.
Strengths
- Clear, step-by-step explanations that make complex topics accessible
- Comprehensive coverage from foundations to production-grade practices
- Practical, hands-on approach with accompanying GitHub repositories
- Historical context that helps learners understand tool evolution
Best for
- Software engineers and DevOps practitioners seeking practical, hands-on training
- Learners preparing for certifications (e.g., GitHub Actions, Kubernetes)
- Those wanting to understand both fundamentals and advanced 'day 2' operations
- Students with limited budget who need high-quality free resources
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Courses by DevOps Directive
2 courses
Complete GitHub Actions Course - From BEGINNER to PRO
BeginnerLearn GitHub Actions to enable your teams to build and ship software faster! 🏗️ ⚙️ 🚀 This course covers everything from the fundamentals of the platform through building out a DevOps system complete with workflows to test, build, and deploy a microservice application! --- Thank you to Namespace (https://namespace.so/?utm_source=devopsdirective) for sponsoring this course. It is because of their support that I am able to provide it to the community free of charge! Namespace provides: - Drop-in hosted GitHub Action runners that accelerate jobs while reducing cost (often by changing just a single line in your configuration). - Blazing-fast caching layers that keep dependency installs snappy. - Remote Docker builders for dramatically quicker container image builds. - Deep observability with insights into job timing and resource utilization you simply can't get in GitHub's native UI. If you end up using Namespace, use the link above and let them know you found out about them through me! --- Written Course: https://courses.devopsdirective.com/github-actions-beginner-to-pro GitHub Repo: https://github.com/sidpalas/devops-directive-github-actions-course --- Timestamps - 0:00:00 Introduction - 0:04:38 History and Motivation - 0:12:37 Why GitHub Actions? - 0:19:04 Setting up your Development Environment - 0:23:59 Core Features - 0:44:20 Advanced Features - 1:07:12 Marketplace Actions - 1:13:30 Authoring Actions - 1:31:35 Common Workflows - 1:40:43 Developer Experience - 1:57:31 Best Practices - 2:06:32 Capstone Project - 2:13:16 Capstone: Test Workflow - 2:42:50 Capstone: Build/Push Workflow - 3:08:39 Capstone: Update GitOps Manifests Workflow - 3:20:24 Capstone: Release Automation Workflow - 3:28:56 Capstone: Stale Issue/PR Workflow - 3:31:01 Capstone: Export Timing Data Workflow - 3:33:38 Capstone: Using Namespace for Improved Performance - 3:41:42 Conclusion --- Join the Community: 💬 Discord: https://discord.devopsdirective.com 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/sidpalas/devops-directive-github-actions-course 🐥 Twitter: https://x.com/sidpalas 👨💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sid-palas/ 🌐 Website: https://devopsdirective.com --- Community size at time of posting: Subscribers: 90,682 Channel Views: 3,376,098
Complete Docker Course - From BEGINNER to PRO! (Learn Containers)
BeginnerLearn Docker and containers to improve your software systems! 🐳 📦 This course covers everything from getting started all the way through building a containerized web application and deploying it to the cloud! --- 🙏 Thank you to Shipyard (https://shipyard.build/) for sponsoring this course. It is because of their support that I am able to provide it to the community free of charge! Shipyard is the easiest way to generate on-demand ephemeral environments (aka a new environment for every pull request) for your containerized applications. Shipyard has also provided an exclusive coupon code for students of this course. The first 300 people to use the code "DEVOPSDIRECTIVE" during signup will get an additional 30 days free on either their startup or business tier plans! (UPDATE: There are still some codes available, sign up today to claim yours!) Sign up with this link to automatically apply the coupon code: https://shipyard.social/DevOpsDirectivePromo! --- Written Course: https://courses.devopsdirective.com/docker-beginner-to-pro/lessons/00-introduction/01-main GitHub Repo: https://github.com/sidpalas/devops-directive-docker-course Bonus Videos: https://links.devopsdirective.com/docker-gumroad --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 04:40 - History and motivation 30:27 - Technology overview 40:30 - Installation and set up 47:15 - Using 3rd party container images 48:06 - Understanding container data and docker volumes 1:13:00 - Demo application 1:28:37 - Building container images 2:23:46 - Container registries 2:33:45 - Running containers 3:02:36 - Container security 3:06:58 - Interacting with Docker objects 3:18:36 - Development workflow 3:52:05 - Ephemeral environments with Shipyard 4:07:17 - Deploying containers 4:42:59 - Final wrap up --- Join the Community: 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/3XzWctZ 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/sidpalas/devops-directive 🐥 Twitter: https://twitter.com/sidpalas 👨💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sid-palas/ 🌐 Website: https://devopsdirective.com --- Community size at time of posting: - Subscribers: 36883 - Channel Views: 1199466